If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

The famous sloop Clearwater, built by the late folk singer Pete Seeger and his friends, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Sail today. It was displaying banners that read, "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions.”

Natalie Harp for her foreign policy expertise.

I had to watch the clip to find out this is about Matt Gaetz, who was repeatedly elected to the House by Republicans (and whose AG nomination never reached any vote because Gaetz himself withdrew).

the dumbest country in the developed world about to get a whole lot dumber

the apotheosis of ‘american values’ is trump

@lukelebrun.ca explains how Ottawa convoy leader Tamara Lich has done an end run around her house arrest sentence. It occurred to me that Hoekstra probably admires her just as he does the Jan 6 participants

You'll never believe what former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy just said on national television... with a straight face. Yeah... I'm just going to leave this here for the people who care about the facts.

Going forward, Nazi tattoos are a dealbreaker. Right? Right?!

what if we... deserve to lose? bsky.app/profile/hell...

It seems Hoekstra is trying to leverage Canada’s right-wing alternative media ecosystem to bypass critical media coverage and build bridges with the Canadian far-right When he pulled these kinds of stunts in the Netherlands, he was accused of foreign interference and violating the Vienna Convention

It’s not the first time Hoekstra has partied with far-right activists as an ambassador either In 2020, as US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Hoekstra hosted a pre-campaign event for an ultranationalist anti-immigrant Dutch political party called Forum voor Democratie www.politico.eu/article/pete...

kick the cunt out

This is not a characteristic of a healthy democracy

Observe with me this epic waterfall in Norway 😀 Vøringsfossen (Eidfjord, Vestland) has a flow that is longer than the height of a 100 story skyscraper! #landscape #nature #waterfall

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matilda Borgström.

Three egg producers will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits to settle a price-fixing lawsuit with the DOJ. None of the producers have to admit any wrongdoing. Is this really justice? Or just the cost of doing business?

u.s. grift also includes public prayer sessions...

Key difference between UK and US political corruption: US grift includes getting your teeth fixed. (Nigel Farage - left, Kristie Noem - right)

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

fat donnie don’t tell nobody what to do...

A sacred tenet of the Senate is that you don’t have to be conscious if you have good staffing.

My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon – Mother Jones A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to “align with current guidance.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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they're dumb as shit and they cheat at sports #USAUSAUSA

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

corrupt venal backwards shithole #americanvalues

Trump dozes during the fireworks show on July 4 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

Important stuff here -- this went from 0 to 60 incredibly fast. www.mediamatters.org/supreme-cour...

The Trump administration filed 32 appeals to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in 2025 alone, one analysis found. The Obama and George W. Bush administrations filed just eight petitions in 16 years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

Infantino, hearing there might be another red card to make go away:

F#ck Jared Kushner and Ivanka Much Respect and Good Thoughts to the Albania People! p.s. Albanians you are 100% correct - this is the MOST corrupt GOV in the World

Announced during a historic heat wave. These guys are buffoons.

ciao mexico

oof

corrupt idiocracy

Kyiv is covered in smoke after Russia's attack on Ukrainian civilians 💔 Three people killed & seven people injured, several residential buildings badly damaged.

“Tidy Whities.” Editorial cartoonist Dennis Goris weighs in on hundreds of masked white nationalists marching through the U.S. capital on July 4th.

He doesn’t know anything about crypto, AI, chips, trade or anything else he puts his bloated fingers into either.He’s an ignorant slob and the most corrupt fucker in a corrupt country

“What kind of man would cheat at this golf?” 😂

*LUTNICK WAS INVOLVED IN TALKS W/ FIFA ON BALOGUN: POLITICO

Mike Luckovich

corrupt shithole

On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names. "I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." —Dashiell Hammett

They don't have the legislative majority to repeal the Clean Air Act -- one of the most successful and popular laws in US history -- so they are simply destroying it by other means.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”